One part of my “plot generator” includes a travel minigame. So that PCs can travel “at the speed of plot.” I’d had some ideas along these lines for a long time — some of them to do with Chess, others[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Arkham Horror
Cookiemonger and I finished watching the first season of Game of Thrones over the holiday weekend. No, I haven’t read the books. Shut up, I’ll do it later. It’s had me thinking about the time it takes to do things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Still thinking about inventory puzzles. I mentioned Diablo and Fallout 3 before — both use their inventory management to help reinforce the themes of the game. Diablo does it by making the dungeon a very alien place, and by limiting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While working on something totally unrelated (incidentally, I was reviewing the rules of my “Chieftains of Catan” variant), I observed that there were eleven possible results for the roll of 2d6, and my brain went, “huh-duh?” There are eleven unstable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I feel almost bad that I don’t have an Arkham Horror project slated for this month — I certainly haven’t thought of one anyway. However I figured it might be nice to give you an update on the last few[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been getting a lot of hits on my Roguelike Tabletop posts, which is encouraging. Tabletop Shop Talk linked to my post from the earlier this month, and I think there’s definitely something to the idea of “thinking for two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I misplaced the document for my Arkham Horror reference sheet, and no more copies exist. I’m working on a new one now, and while writing the section about movement, I paused for a moment to consider the special movement rules[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hauled out Arkham Horror for a game on Sunday. Despite some tweaking I’ve done with the game components recently, I haven’t played in some time. I reduced the number of Common Items, Unique Items, and Spells, stripped extraneous Skills so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of the last pieces in the repeatable mystery series. I’ve talked about Arkham Horror a lot on my blog. If you comb the archives, you can see I’ve developed some resources for playing the game, and I’ve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While writing an earlier, I stumbled across this cool blog, Between Are The Doors, which has a variety of Arkham Horror mods based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural. While I can’t speak from experience of having used them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…